4. Lemonis is a bust and will run this program in the ground in two years: Here's my take on Lemonis- He's a CEO coach. Just like Jackie Sherrill essentially. So not a bad thing- but it does mean that he relies a lot on his assistants and he's going to be only as good as his assistants. Foxhall has not impressed me that much since SEC play started. He has a lot of input in the staff and he has a traditional approach to the bullpen. But he has to start being OK pitching our better guys if we're down a run. The coaching staffs approach to the game Thursday set the tone for the series in a really bad way. Gautreau has to do better of correcting approach issues IN GAME rather than just sit around and let our guys swing once and pop out time after time and not do anything about it until later. Halter needs to sit. Gilbert should be the third baseman going forward regardless of match ups.

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agree & think this is the formula for Omaha in a few months. excellent points

One thing I give Lemonis ton of credit for is moving Foscue to 2nd which has improved our team greatly. Seems like Lemonis has 2 more big moves to make over the next month for postseason prep & I think those are Gilbert full time @ 3b and setting the sat starting pitcher (basically determine his top 7-8 arms for the weekend). Gilbert hits 2 bombs vs Bama and then gets relegated to spot duty from the bench vs ak which just seemed to screw up the whole offensive chemistry. all the confidence that Gilbert played with leading up to Ark was squashed. Yeah, I know Halter got on base vs Ark but those were anomalies. Gilbert's bat is too valuable to sit any longer and he's a better defender;. plus think Gilbert is going to play alot better w/o looking over his shoulder. And yeah, I still put blame on Halter for the opening inning vs LSU game 2 which doomed us. Thing is, Halter has 100 abs on the season hitting 260, but what's crazy is he only has 4 extra base hits. 4 with a majority of those ABs being non SEC. contrast gilbert has 50 abs with 6 extra base hits coming from spot duty mainly.